The new firms have total registered capital of over 1 quadrillion VND (44 billion USD), up 43.8 percent from the same time last year.

The retail and automobile and motorbike maintenance and repair industries saw pool of newly established companies with 37,817 firms, followed by the processing and manufacturing sector with 13,449 firms.

Meanwhile, the real estate sector has the strongest growth in the number of new businesses (62.5 percent).